BYU Studies resources for PBS's "The Mormons"

BYU Studies has provided links to the following articles or books dealing with issues raised in PBS's "The Mormons."

 

The First Vision and Early Church History

Dean C. Jesse, "The Earliest Documented Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision," in Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820–1844 (2005).

  James B. Allen and John W. Welch, "The Appearance of the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith in 1820," in Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820–1844 (2005). ]

Richard L. Bushman, "The Visionary World of Joseph Smith," BYU Studies 37, no. 1 (1997).

Gordon A. Madsen, "Joseph Smith's 1826 Trial: The Legal Setting," BYU Studies 30, no. 2 (1990).

John Gee, "An Obstacle to Deeper Understanding," review of D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998).

James B. Allen, review of Grant H. Palmer, An Insiders View of Mormon Origins, in BYU Studies 43, no. 2 (2004).

Evidence for the Book of Mormon

John W. Welch, "Joseph Smith and the Past," The Worlds of Joseph Smith: A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress, edited by John W. Welch ( Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2006).

Margaret Barker, "Joseph Smith and the Pre-exilic Israelite Religion," The Worlds of Joseph Smith: A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress, edited by John W. Welch ( Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2006).

John Clark, "Archaeological Trends and the Book of Mormon Origins," The Worlds of Joseph Smith: A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress, edited by John W. Welch ( Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2006).

John W. Welch, "Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon," BYU Studies 10.1 (1969): 69–84.

John W. Welch, "The Narrative of Zosimus and the Book of Mormon," BYU Studies 22.3 (1982): 311–332.

Boyd F. Edwards and W. Farrell Edwards, "Does Chiasmus Appear in the Book of Mormon by Chance?" BYU Studies 43.2 (2004): 103–130.

Hugh Nibley, review of Zigael Yadin's Bar-Kochba, BYU Studies 14.1 (1973): 115–126.

Brown, S. Kent. "'The Place That Was Called Nahom': New Light from Ancient Yemen." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 8.1 (1999): 66–68. Maxwell Institute website

Aston, Warren P. "Newly Found Altars from Nahom." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10.2 (2001): 56–61. Maxwell Institute website